Lighting sets a mood, it impacts the way we feel about a space and how we interact with it, too. Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde in the Netherlands has long toyed with the medium, recently winning an Index Award for his Smart Highway project, which uses light to create an interactive road that gives you added context like weather conditions and traffic situations. Where Smart Highway takes a practical approach, his most recent project, Crystals, is a totally different way to answer the question Roosegaarde is constantly striving to answer: What’s next in lighting?
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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